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Jehud

Jehud, a town allotted to the tribe of Dan (Joshua 19:45).

Jehud was a town allotted to the tribe of Dan during the division of the Promised Land (Joshua 19:45). It was located in the western part of Canaan, in the coastal plain region known as the Shephelah. The town is mentioned only once in the Bible, and no additional information about its history or significance is provided. Its exact location remains uncertain.

Approximate location: 32.034, 34.890 · view on a map · on the Bible atlas

Bible dictionary

Jehud Smith Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863)

(praised), one of the towns of the tribe of Dan, (Joshua 19:45) named between Baalath and Bene-berak.

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Jehud Hitchcock Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Jehudi, praising; conferring

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Jehud Hastings Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible (1898)

JE'HUD (celebrated), a town of the Danites, Josh 19:45; identical with the village el-Yehudiyeh, about 10 miles east of Jaffa, and now a place of 800 to 1000 inhabitants.

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Jehud Schaff Schaff’s Dictionary of the Bible

JE'HUD (celebrated), a town of the Danites, Josh 19:45; identical with the village el-Yehudiyeh, about 10 miles east of Jaffa, and now a place of 800 to 1000 inhabitants.

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Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.

Where Jehud appears

1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H3055

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Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.